Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, General: Economic and Social Matters, Volume II

840.70/11–1044: Telegram

The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Gallman) to the Secretary of State

London, November 10, 1944—9 p.m.
[Received November 10—5:03 p.m.]

9807. Ronald told us this evening that a cable had been sent this afternoon to the British Embassy in Washington instructing it to urge upon the Department the necessity for an early reply to the Soviet note regarding the Polish representation at the EITO Conference.

We were shown an account of a conversation between Mr. Eden⁷⁸ and the Soviet Ambassador on November 7 during which Mr. Eden stated that the British Government could in no circumstances assent to the representation of the Lublin Committee at the expense of the Polish Government in London. Ronald also told us that Richard Law⁷⁹ had, on October 31, made a similar statement to Mr. Gousev⁸⁰ in which he expressed surprise that the Soviet Government had taken such a step while the Polish question was still being considered on the basis of the talks held in Moscow by the Prime Minister and Mr. Eden.

The Soviet Ambassador has requested a written statement of the British Government viewpoint and this the Foreign Office states it cannot give until it knows how the Department intends to answer the Soviet note.

Gallman

78. Anthony Eden, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
79. Richard K. Law, British Minister of State.
80. Fedor Tarasovitch Gousev, Soviet Ambassador in the United Kingdom.